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Pretty good 8 MP camera makes for decent photos and video recording, but shooting with the large slate is unwieldy

The 8 MP camera on the rear of the NotePRO is of the auto focus variety, and comes accompanied by an LED flash. Featuring zero shutter lag, it takes advantage of the numerous shooting and scene modes the typical Samsung camera interface offers, such as Panorama, HDR, Sports, Night and so on. You also get a 2 MP front-facing shooter, which does 720p video recording.

The photos come out nice, with amount of detail akin to the resolution. Contrast seems to receive a slight boost in Auto mode, compared to the actual scene, resulting in more intensive colors, and overall frame that often appears a tad underexposed. When you shoot contrasting scenes, we'd recommend to use the Rich Tone (HDR) mode of the tablet, which does a fine job of toning down bright objects, and highlighting the shadows at the same time.

Indoors the tablet also performs well, with accurate color presentation, and minimal blur when you hold the tablet steady. Visible noise creeping up only in the darkest of scenes, and the LED flash does a decent job illuminating the scene from a five feet distance.

The NotePRO records 1080p video with 30fps, and the footage stays fluid regardless of the light around, without noticeable artifacts. Exposure compensation is fast when you pan around with the tablet, but shooting video with a 12-incher is, needless to say, a funky experience.

Samsung Galaxy NotePRO 12.2 Sample Videos

1. Samsung Galaxy NotePRO 12.2 Sample Video

2. Samsung Galaxy NotePRO 12.2 Indoor Sample Video

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The gallery offers a split-screen view with folders on the left, and their content shown in grid preview on the right. The tablet offers very rich editing options, which are enhanced with stylus-friendly features to draw and annotate on your photos.

Your tunes catalog gets a new, minimalistic tabbed layout in a conservative, but very readable black and white color scheme. The player's controls themselves have received a minimalistic redraw, too, those these keep Samsung's blueish color scheme. The NotePRO has a number of sound modes and equalizer presets, while the two stereo speakers on the sides are powerful, but the output is not particularly full or clean.

Most manufacturers stopped support for DivX-encoded videos recently, and Samsung is no exception. You can play MKV and Xvid videos in up to 1080p resolution with the NotePRO's stock player, but not DivX ones. That can be easily remedied with a trip to the Play Store, though. Video playback looks beautiful on the huge and luminant high-res display, so watching movies or other footage is one of the selling points for this tablet.

False about the thinner, lighter and longer lasting battery. Bay Trail-T tablets are lighter and the battery life is just as long. Asus T100 only costs $400 with tablet and keyboard, not to mention full Windows 8.1.

Surface Pro 2 has Wacom digitizer and can be had for $899 which is more pricey, but it comes with a Core i5 and full Windows 8.1.

And other equivalent devices don't cost three times as much.Your facts are just all completely wrong.

You want to open up multiple apps in windows? There's already an OS for that - it's called Windows.

A laptop lacks a lot of things which are in a tablet or a phone these days, like a great high-res camera a high pixel density display (exceptions are there, but considering the cost). But c'mon my friend, a laptop and its benefits far exceeds a tablet's, be it raw power, the workability and especially regarding true productivity.

You essentially answered your own question. Once the 10.1 (2014) gets the update, the only difference will be the size. Not sure if the 10.1 will have 4 simultaneous windows though. Depends on whether or not they added it

Thanks for you quick reply mate. But I have no problem for bigger screen. All I care about is features of OS. But if 10.1 and 12.2 become identical after kitkat update I do not want to pay $200 more for 2.1" more screen size.

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